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I just googled Grand Tour to watch online, 2 sites came up with this Firefox needs AntiVirus update thing,andboxes to click. I couldnt shut it down or change the page
I used my antivirus and it shut down after,was still there when I restarted, so I'm using Chrome now
Any ideas what I can do?
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Isn't Grand Tour on Amazon Prime?
maybe, but I'm not
any episode recommendasians?
It's fake. I had one of these from a download site and nearly had to restart my PC to get rid of it.
So you're looking for dodgy downloads and you're wondering why you're getting scammy pop ups?
Try resetting firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
as for surfing dodgy sites for streaming video...
I had some good sites before, for watching tv progs etc, when I was in thailand
The other one is the pop up that says we've detected porn on your computer, dial 1-800-.... or else.
Ad blocker is essential on these or you get swamped by a dozen casino, betting, get rich quick type pages.
any of these dodgy porno sites you can recommend for me to test my antivirus program on?
Malware adverts. STW is apparently known for them sometimes if you don't have a 'P' 😉
They haven't infected anything but they are irritating and difficult to stop at times. They work on flaws in the majority of browsers in that they let pages overlay on the whole screen and use scripts to stop you clicking close etc. Worse is modern browsers try to be helpful and restart the last page you were on if the browser was shut down by force, e.g. using Task Manager to kill it or rebooting or powering off the computer.
Edge browser at least now will ask you if you want to resume the tabs. Chrome possibly also.
Just ctrl+alt+delete, kill the browser process, then start it again, answer no to resuming tabs.
I wouldn't resort to installing random anti-virus software. Half of them are malware themselves (in my opinion even legitimate big name ones, they are more damaging to your computer than the decent built in anti-virus in Windows 10).
If you want to double check, try Malwarebytes (free version).